Here's Chuck Miller. Of everyone in those old video, he was my Ashtanga hero, such intensity, scary almost. Here he is in a long 25 minute workshop intensive posted by Babylon yoga.
Chuck Miller: Practice Makes Permanent from Babylon Yoga on Vimeo.
And this morning I came across an interview with Maty Ezraty
...and here they are back in the day.
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Got out of bed this morning and felt something twinge in my calf. M had dragged me outside to show me the moon last night so decided to take a moon day. A short, light VK practice with long pranayama and some mahamudra meditation.
After watching these I need my Friday Primary, little late but.........
UPDATE
Just finished practice, what's that an hour, give or take. Forgotten I'd eaten something not so long ago, felt like throwing up at one point but, apart from that minor detail, what a glorious practice. Felt it a bit towards the end, not sure you can do Ashtanga once a week.... Afternoon practices are the best aren't they? Your body all loosened up, flying along, nice nice practice. Ahhhh Ashtanga....
Another UPDATE
This from Ramaswami on FB this morning
Tomorrow Saturday is Raksha Bandhan affirming the bondage between a sister and a brother. It is also the annual vedic day, when one rededicates to the study of vedas. It is affirmed by a 1008 japa of the Gayatri mantra on the following day (Sunday).
Here's a link to a post on the new blog about doing the 1008 last year and how it went. GAYATI MANTRA 1008 TIMES
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6 comments:
Ahh... you beat me to posting these videos :D Maty confirmed it: neither Ashtanga nor Iyengar is just about the asanas. However, it's helpful to use alignments to achieve an efficient flow of prana and use the edge of asanas to help us examine ourselves internally.
He was my hero as well. Him and Richard. That is a great video. Are Chuck and Maty officially not together anymore?
Hi Yyogini, nice interview isn't it, they cover a lot of ground here.
Yeah there's that nice section at the end of the first part where she's talking about it not being about the asana, not about how good your backbend is and that the point of it all is to prepare you from meditation. She also says that's something Ashtanga neglects a little.
There's that nice bit right at the end just after she's run down our fixation on asana, where the interviewer says, yeah but I've seen your practice, it's amazing. Maty comes back with...
'Patarbhi joys used to say that these postures have a godlike quality to them. It's like connecting to that godlike energy some of these poses have'
Liked that, something wonderful on encountering a new posture, working with it, whether it's one from the middle of primary or the advanced series, just mustn't take it TOO seriously.
Thanks for commenting Ralph, little strange to hear Chuck talking, he was always the quiet one in the background, practicing intensely in my mind. Hadn't seen any DVD's or video's of him teaching before.
No idea about your last question I'm afraid.
Thanks for posting the videos. (You make a super Ashtanga sniffer dog).
That Chuck Miller one has made me awfully shala-sick. ;o(
Great post there Grimmly. Enjoying the depth.
Thanks Steve, Matt, Isn't Vimeo great, think that video is twenty-five minutes, they only allow around ten on Youtube.
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